The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-22 00:00:00

MR. BAINES AT LEEDS. Mr. E. BAINES, M.P., attended the annual meet ee g of the Leeds Chamber of Commerce, which was held at the Town-hall of that borough on Wednes day, at noon, and addressed the members. He said he had listened with great interest to the very busi ness-like report which had been laid before them. That report, in all its branches, convinced him more and more of the great utility of Chambers of Com merce. They created an interest in the subject of grievances, or of injury or of obstruction to trade, and these questions were brought before them by practical men, who pressed them upon their mem bers, who assisted to press them upon the public. The Institution of Associated Chambers of Come merce also took up these subjects, and it was thus that public opinion was pervaded and the mercan tile world and the Government influenced upon these important matters. (Hear.) Reference was made in the report to the vast expense of local bills. That would be a question of very'great interest this session. He hardly knew how any other business was to be transacted ; the local bills numbered something like 330, and the amount of money pro posed to be expended on them was something pro digious. The amount of time which would be con sumed in the examination of these schemes by com mittees would also be prodigious, and therefore the question on these grounds was one of vast interest and importance. It had already been examined by a committee of the House of Commons, but he did not think anything had been suggested, by which any material alteration would take place in the sys tem by which private bills were submitted to Parlia ment. With reference to the question of the West Riding assizes, upon that, as upon all commercial matters, he agreed with his hon.friend and colleague (Mr. Beecroft), and they had each done his best, by letters and in every other way in which they could use influence, to impress upon the Government and those connected with it the superior claims which Leeds had to be the assize town, or one of the assize towns, for the West Riding. In consequence of the opinion expressed here and at Sheffield relative to the claims of the latter town as the centre of a very important district, containing a population of be tween 300,000 and 400,000 in the remote part of the riding, the claims of Leeds and Sheffield had been put together ; not that they, were necessarily indissoluble; if the claims of Sheffield were nega tived, the claims of Leeds might be admitted ; but as they knew they had a formidable competitor in the town of Wakefield. They had prejudices to combat—and which he feared all large manufactur ing towns had to combat—in the feelings of coun try gentlemen not wishing to go among them and come in contact with their populations, and who, he believed, rather preferred a small town not too far from green fields to a large town. That was very strongly against Leeds. He believed the question would soon be settled, but he was sorry to be quite unable to give them any information as to the way in which it would be decided. The report made reference to new commercial treaties, which was a matter of great importance to Leeds. He was glad that the commercial treaty with Italy was likely to be of great value to this town, and to open up a Lew and large field of consumption. Mr. Ludolf had mentioned the subject of commercial relations with Austria, which he (Mr. Baines) brought be fore them last year. It was quite true there was very small commercial intercourse between this country and Austria, but there was most ample room for a great development of commerce between these two countries. There was hardly any civilised country with which our intercourse was so limited, and hardly any country which had so large a combination of means for producing those things which would be useful to our trade. It was chiefly the fault of the Austrian Government— with their old system, which was hostile to free trade and favourable to protection—that we had not been able to negotiate a commercial treaty with that country. It was a pleasant thing to know that Austrian deputies were sent to attend the sittings of the British Association at Newcastle, with the view expressly of looking into commercial matters, and of relenting whether there could not be profitably a freer intercourse between the two countries. He ;:leped their report would 13e a highly favourable one, especially as they knew that the two chief Ministers, Count Rechberg and Baron Sehmerline, were both favourable to the principle of free trade. (Hear, hear.) On the subject of a Government 4eprtment cf trade in connexion with our foreign trade, he continued to entertain the same opinions as he had expressed before. He did not know whether the new Minister, or Minister expressly assigned to this particular department, should be a commercial Minister in the Foreign-office or a Fo reign Minister is the Board of Trade ; bat it did seem to him absolutely as clear as daylight that there ought to, be some Minister expressly charged with our eornmercial relations. He was happy to see this question had been mentioned at the meeting of the Bradford Chamber of Commerce, and was to ferns the subject of discussion at the meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce, and he should be most happy to do anything to assist in this important object. At present it was quite evi aleut that many important subjects dropped, as it were, between two stools, no one being expressly charged with the duty of attending to them. (Hear, Lear.) Allusion had been made to the extra quarter per cent. charged upon inland bonding warehouses. Ho had spoken to Mr. Gladstone respecting it, and his answer was—" I want to pay the expenses ; it was the distinct understanding on which bonding warehouses were allowed that that quar ter per cent. should be paid. I can't and I won't give it up." That was Mr. Gladstone's decided opinion, but it was no law of the Medea and Per sians, and if they were able to say from experience that thi3 charge prevented them from receiving any considerable appreciable advantage from the esta blishment of bonding warehouses, he thought they would have a strong case to go to the Chancell3r of the Exchequer, and ask to be put on the same footing as older bonding towns. They might show that the Government was bound to incur the ex pense of collecting its own revenues, and that they ought not to be exposed to a deferential duty, as it were, for that purpose. (Hear.) On the subject of a registration of partnerships he concurred in the opinion expressed by the President. He did not see why partnerships should not be registered, just as the shareholders in banks and joint-stock compa nies were registered. He knew this was not accept able to the House of Commons and to the city of London, but he thought the Chambers of Commerce should continue to discuss the subject. It was one of these regulations requiring that all matters affect ing credit and trade should be open and above board, and which lee believed would eventually have such a response from public opinion and common sense that it would be ultimately successful. Mr. Baines alluded to the President's observations respecting the reports of foreign Consuls upon trade, express ing his dissent - from that gentleman's opinion as to their value, and stating that some of those reports, especially from France and Belgium, were most valuable and interesting. Mr. Ludolf had alluded to Brazil. Unfortunately we had got into apolitical quarrel with that em p ire, and he di d not feel con fident that we were i n the ri g ht. (Hear .) He felt that we had acted in an imperious way, and exacted mere than we should from a nation on th e same level of importance with our selves. He was not satis fied with the conduct of our ambitesador at Uruguay, and he hoped that for the interest of peace, the Chamber of Commerce would make such represen tations to the Foreign-office that the misunderstand ing existing with so vast and important a country as Brazil, which was so long a customer to our trade, menses as soon as possible be removed. (Hear, hear.) With regard to Cubs, he believed the explanation o f 3,1 r. 13117:ts't - had set right. the question raieed by •Mr. 1, 11 ,3n:f. rArs ago cliff-renfil duties were h e:get:ed. end new the only creetion, though one of greet clffimlty, referred to the difference in the lee of sugar. It WES astonishing the amount Test felt on t his subject in London, Liverpool, :i rf , g9 7, by the refiners, importers, and tiler and in the last session Mr. Gladstone stated that a " sugar congress" was about to be held in Perin, to come to zoinadeeisioo as to the classification of engars, without injuriously e Meting the t ra d e . That concrete; hsd been held, and they might there fore expect something would soon be done. With cr U 1 and C regard to the growth of tobacco and beetroot, no doubt both were special cases. The Government got a large sum from the import duty on tobacco, and they could not spare it. It was a duty producing no less than five millions sterling, and a better duty could not possibly exist: He should not consider if it were ten millions it would be too mach to levy on tobacco—(laughter)—and that was the only reason why it could not be beneficially allowed to be grown at home, and rather than ask us to pay an additional house duty or increased income tax he hoped the Government would consider well before they gave up the tobacco duty. With regard to beetroot it was found necessary to levy a duty upon it similar to that upon sugar. These duties were in course of modification, and he should be glad if they could be brought down to nothing, as, indeed, upon tea, coffee, and all such articles of food which came so largely into general consumption. In the next place he (Mr. Baines) had to congratulate the Chamber on the prosperity which during the past year had attended the trade of Leeds in all its branches. He congratulated them also as men of humanity upon the happy measure in which there had been a restoration to a better state of things in Lancashire. (Hear.) Now, they did not see in that district that prostration and appalling condition of the people which was witnessed a year ago. It appeared that now there could be got from all quar ters of the globe the kind of cotton suitable for Lancashire uses quite independent of the United States, and the President of the Chamber of Com merce said that during this year as much cotton would be imported from other parts of the world as would be equal to two-thirds of the highest annual consumption which ever took place. That would be a very important thing, and no doubt it would greatly reanimate the drooping trade of Lancashire. (Hear, hear.) He might first say to the practical men of business he saw about him that they were now enjoying a great measure of artificial prosperity in Leeds and the adjacent clothing districts. They were positively benefiting by the reverses and dis tress of their neighbours in the cotton districts, by the enhancement which had taken place both in the price of the raw material and of manufactured goods, in consequence of the scarcity of the raw material and the dearness of manufactured goods in the cotton trade. But they might depend upon it there would certainly be a reaction. As the cotton trade revived the trade of Leeds must expect to go down. He had the strongest possible conviction of it. He would say to the wool merchant, "Do not keep too large a stock," and to the woollen mer chant he would say, "Do not overburden your warehouses with a heavy stock, buy as much as possible from hand to mouth," And he would say the same to the flax spinners. He did not say when this evil change would come; it might come soon ; but though the merchants in this town and district were now gaining a great profit through the mis fortunes of the cotton trade, with the revival of that trade they would come to occupy she same position which they did before, and there must before long be a reaction in the price of the goods they manufactured; and, on the other hand, there was the state of things arising from the enormous amount of public undertakings which were pre sented to notice. He thought it was a bad indica tion—a dangerous indication, and it was a state of things which must be watched very carefully by those who did not wish to lose their savings. No less than 100 millions of property out of capital had been laid out in the various joint-stock companies which were proposed during the last year alone— joint-stock companies which, if they were to call up their capital, would require 100 millions. What were they going to do with it ; it was exclusively of railways ; but there had been paid within the last few days seven millions sterling as deposits on new railway projects to come before Parliament next Session. The deposit was 8 per cent., about 1-12th of the whole, and therefore seven millions implied 84 millions sterling of capital it was pro posed afresh to invest in railways by Bills now be fore Parliament, in addition to what the country was already pledged to do. Then there were 100 milliOns and 80 millions in addition to all other en gagements, and these many millions were Indepen dent of Indian railways, public loans of four or five millions sterling, all of which goes out of this coun try. The average amount expended last year in on railways was 12 millions, A hundred and twenty millions had been added to the paid-up capital of railways during the last ten years, of foreign, British, and colonial railways, and now it was proposed to make an addition of 100 millions more. What savings had the country to enable it to do these things ? What was the amount of its savings annually ? From enquiries and from read ing a valuable article which had appeared in the Economist, written by a friend of his, whom he knew to be one of the best statists in the country,' he found the annual amount of savings in this country was estimated at 130 millions sterling. But of that 130 millions sterling the writer made out that 40 millions sterling was invested in the department of houses and buildings, in the building of new places of business to meet the wants of the increas ing population. Thirty millions sterling, he said, were expended in loans, colonial and foreign rail ways, and other public companies, such as tele graphs, docks, harbours, &c. This 70 millions be ing so expended the writer doubted whelher the remaining 60 millions would suffice " for the drain age and improvement of the soil; for the multipli cation of manufactories, tools, and machines; for increase of trading capital, ships, consignments, and the like ; for foreign and colonial loans, and for the increase of furniture, apparel, works of art, and objects of taste and luxury." So the meeting would see that the country was spending as fast as it was saving. He (Mr. Baines) wanted to know where this further 180 millions sterling was to come from which was now to be invested in railways and joint stock companies this next year. He could not for his own part see where it was to spring from. He was not disposed to take a too prudential view, but it was desirable to have the matter fairly before their attention, and he was sure his hon. colleague (Mr. Beecroft) would sympathise with him in what he had said on the subject. He (Mr. Baines) really must look at it in two ways.. First, all these com panies indicated an excess of credit. Artificial pros perity is always the effect of real prosperity. All our inflated and fevered states have originated in a really solid prosperity, and solid prosperity has gone on so long that men are encouraged to extend their aims in every direction. All fear had gone, and the experience was bright and pleasant, and so it went on until the country got into something like a state of fever. He feared this vast number of new companies indicated that we were in such a state now. He (Mr. Baines) said if all these concerns' went on they would bring the country to a very great want of capital, and by and by the rate of discount would be up much higher even than it is new. He was happy that that rate had been raised, and he hoped it would check or destroy more of the new projects. He was glad of this opportunity to express these opinions before those who were cap able of protesting with effect against such a state of things. If he were wrong in the views he had ex pressed he should be glad to be set right by the Chamber he was addressing, but if he was right he should not be sorry that he had said to the gentle men who were at the head of the trade of his native town that this was a time in which they should exercise caution as to their future operations. (Applause.) -- - CAPITAL PUNISHMENT IN PORTUGAL. •—• The Minister of Justice•of Portugal laid before the Chamber of Deputies, in tLe sitting of the 11th, a bill de creeing the abolition of the punishment of death, which punishment the g o v ernment proposes to maintain only for military crimes, in the event of war with a foreign power. SUIT FOR THE RETURN OF A BRASS KETTLE.— That the kettl e had brn reterned, that the defendant hod never borrowed it, and that the plaintiff never had a kettle to lend. r ADVERTISEMENT.] —llollo wa D 6 Pils—Nothin Bettor ese invaluable Pills ex er t —n a gater l and more be g neficial i n fluence over nervous disorders than any other medicine. Their mode of action is thoroughly consonant with reason ...,they completely purify the both head and stomach of all faulty expel all oppressive accumu lations from the bowels. With the blood purified, a and all poisons p ur g ed from the system,and cease ; d must preva il throughout the body ; aches and p healthful energy mus t su pp lant weariness ; regularity i must nerve s must regain their wholesome to ne.A t rom a sha lity k e of Y these Pills eradicates low s p irits, nervous ex (aate" h ys t er i cs , neuralgic twitches, and other derangements th i pendent on nervous maladies, which every cow, - der person may thus certainly and s9fe/y remove, THE SUN, WIND COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. A Court of Common Council was holden yesterday in the Council Chamber, Guildhall. The Lord Mayor presided. _ _ . The Remembrancer read a long list of bills, railway and others, to be brought forward in the approaching session of Parliament that were likely to affect the city of London. He at the same time said that, with regard to some of them, if the Corporation should feel it expedient to oppose them, it was necessary that proceedings should be speedily taken. The whole of the bills were referred to the Law and Par liamentary Committee, in order that they might take them into consideration and report forthwith. THE LONDON FIRE BRIGADE, Mr. H. L. TAYLOR asked the permission of the Court to mention a subject which he said was of considerable im portance, not only to the citizens of London, but also to the inhabitants of the metropolis at large. He said that he had reason to believe that a communication had been made to the Metropolitan Board of orks by the Home Secretary to the effect that .1 .- t was intended to e!....0p01i5, and although he was raise a fire brigade in the m not in a position to -. inform the Court the precise nature of the step ttcti was intended to be taken, it was one that would wadoubtedly very materially affect the rates of the inhabi tants of the metropolis, and also those of the city of London, and he therefore asked the Court to consent to allow the matter to go before a committee, in order that they might make the necessary inquiries, and collect the requisite in formation, and report thereupon to the Court. (Hear, hear,) He should therefore propose that the subject be referred to the General Purposes Committee. Mr. RUDRIN supported the motion, and, said that from what he had heard, he believed that if the scheme in con templation by the Government was carried out it would cost the citizens of London a very large sum of money. (Hear, hear.) The LORD MAYOR observed that he had reason to know that communications had for some time been going on be tween the Metropolitan Board of Works and the Home Secretary with a view to place in the hands of the former the creation of a fire brigade for the metropolis, and that if the plan was carried out it would entail a very heavy charge upon the ratepayers. He might also state that he believed that one portion of the proposed scheme was to relieve the different fire offices from the payment of the amount Row contributed by them towards the support of the present fire brigade. (Hear, hear.) The motion of Mr. Taylor was then agreed to. RAISING OF HOLBORN VALLEY. Mr. F. MAYNARD presented a petition from Mr. Marrable one of the unsuccessful candidates for designs for effecting the above important improvement, praying the Court to re consider the decision they had arrived at in reference to the matter. It will be remembered that Mr. Blamable was one of the three candidates selected as having sent in the best designs for raising the Holborn Valley, the other two being Mr. Bell and Mr. Sorby, to whom the first premium of £250 and the second of £l5O were awarded. Mr. Marrable, in his petition, pointed out various difficulties in the way of carry ing out either of the accepted plans, and he prayed •the Court to allow the subject to be referred back to the Improvement Committee, and also that his own plans and designs shouldbe submitted to some independent gentlemen of high eminence in the profession, that they might give an unbiassed opinion upon those designs. Mr. Marrable attended at the bar in support of his petition, and in answer to the questions that were put to him by various members of the Court, he stated what he conceived to be serious objections to the designs that had been adopted by the committee, and he also appeared specially to complain that Mr. Haywood, the engineer to the Corporation, should have been permitted to use his influence in reference to the acceptance of the designs by the Improvement Committee. Mr. 'MAYNARD, having addressed the Court in support of the petition, moved that the prayer of the petition be complied with, and that the matter Should be referred back to the Improvement Committee for further consideration. Mr. ROWE opposed the motion, and said that if the Court were to adopt such a course as the one proposed upon every application made to it by every disappointed competitor, they should never be able to get through with the business of the Corporation. (Hear, hear.) The Improvement Committee had considered the subject most attentively, and had made their report, and now it was sought to open the whole question again. (Hear, hear.) He was most strenuously opposed to such a proceeding, and should, there fore, move that the petition do lie on the table, Deputy PERKINS seconded the amendment. Deputy FRY, the chairman of the Improvement Com mittee, expressed his opinion that it would be exceedingly inconvenient and inadvisable to open the question after the whole subject had been fully discussed and decided upon. He would state at the same time that it was impossible for a more honourable or independent decision to have been arrived at than the one agreed to by the committee. (Hear, hear.) He would also add that no officer of the Corporation had anything to do with, or had in any way influenced that decision. (Hear, hear.) lie would also state that although the committee had ac cepted the designs of Mr. Bell and Mr. Sorby, neither of these plans was perfect, but would require a great deal of alteration. The committee, however, had no alternative but to decide in favour of those plans, because they were plans that most embodied the principles upon which the committee had resolved to act in carrying out this important improve ment. With regard to the present petition he would only observe that if the Court were to entertain it, every other disappointed candidate might take a similar step, apd he did not know where the matter would end. (Hear.) Mr. HOPOOOD said that although he concurred with the committee in the decision, he thought it rather unfortunate that Mt. Haywood, one of the Corporation officers, should have been allowed to interfere in any manner with reference to the acception or rejection of the plans and designs that were sent in by the different competitors. Deputy DE JERSEY said that what was suggested by the hon. member was not the fact. Mr. Haywood had nothing whatever to do with the decision of the committee relating to the designs that were sent in to them. Mr. MAYNARD said if Mr. Haywood had had nothing to do with the decision of the committee, he should like to know what he was paid £l,OOO for by them? (Hear.) Mr. GLOVER wished to know whether it was the fact that the committee paid Mr. Haywood £l,OOO for his ser vices to them in reference to this matter. Probably the chairman of the Improvement Committe3 would not object to answer the question. Deputy FRY said it was true that Mr. Haywood had been paid £I,GOO by the committee for his services in reference to this matter, and he begged to inform this Court that the committee prepared a resolution to this effect, and that it was carried unanimously. If he was asked what the £l,OOO was paid for, ho could inform them that it was for his as sistance in examining and reporting upon more than a hundred plans that were submitted to the committee, and for also preparing the plans to be submitted to Parliament, which, but for his assistance, could not have been prepared in time. (Hear, hear.) He could also inform the Court that if any other engineer or surveyor had been employed, the expense would have been unavoidably greater: (Hear.) Mr. EDMONDS said he should like to be informed whether any committee had the power to expend £l,OOO in thisman ner without the consent of the Court of Common Council. Deputy FRY said that the money did not come out of the corporation funds, but out of a fund created by Act by Par liament. for the purpose of carrying out these improve. ments. Alderman DAXIN said that he should wish to know whe ther a portion of such a fund as the one alluded to, which belonged to the City, could be expended without the consent of the Court. The CHAMBERLAIN, who was subsequently appealed to, stated that the money was paid oat of the fourpenny City coal dues, which were levied under the Act of Parliament for the purpose of carrying out these improvements. He at the same time said that it was always considered competent for a committee having the powers granted to the Improve ment Committee, to order similar sums of money to be paid. (Hear.) After a few words from Mr. MAYNARD in reply, the amendment and the motion were put to the Court, when the former was declared to be carried. A divicion was demanded, upon which the numbers ap• peered to be— For the amendment B6 Against it Majority for the amendment —sB - THE NEW LUNATIC ASYLUM, There were several petitions from different wards in the City, praying the Court to take the necessary steps to pre vent the new lunatic asylum, on its completion, from comingunder the control of the magistrates of the City of London, who would have the power of levying a county rate if they thought fit to do so for the support of the inmates. It was urged in same of the petitions that, if necessary, an act of Parliament should be obtained for this purpose. A long and desultory conversation, unattended with any result, took place upon this subject during which it was stated that no doubt was entertained that the magistrates would perform the duties that would devolve upon them in reference to the establishment in the most satisfactory man ner; and although it was believed that they were them selves opposed to the principle of making a county rate upon the citizens for the support of the establishment, still it was feared they might be compelled to do so. In order to avoid all possibility of such a course, which is naturally most ob noxious to the ratepayers of the City of London, the peti tioners were desirous that the new asylum should not be placed under their control, but should remain under that of the Court of Common Council. The matter was eventually postponed, uprn the under standing that a special court should be convened, at which the whole subject should be fully discussed. The various petitions and memorials were, however, in the meantime, referred to the Special Lunatic Asylum Committee, to be taken into consideration. Mr. Deputy BOWED, brought up a petition signed by the merchants, housekeepers, traders, and occupiers in the ward of Billingsgate, in ward meeting assembled, praying the Court to take such steps as they may co ns id er necessary to prevent the passing through Parliament of railway schemes which contemplate lines of railway through the said ward. Mr. Deputy BOWER moved that it shofild be referred to the Law and Parliamentary Committee, to take such steps as they thought fit, and to report to the court. Mr. Deputy LOTT sccomird the motion. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY also supported the motion, and lON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1864. said that some of the inhabitants had already been served with six notices respecting various railway schemes, which if carried out, would virtually put a stop to the trade which was carried on in that part of the City; and those who at tended the meeting thought the Court of Common Council was the proper place to present an address, and that it was the duty of that body to approach Parliament against the wild and destructive schemes which now threaten the City. The motion was agreed to, and the Court adjourned. Extraordinary Charge, any purpose of conquest or subjugation, or purpose of over throwing or interfering with the rights of estabAished insti tutions in those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the constitution, and to preserve the Union with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired ; and that as soon as those objects are accomplished the war ought to cease." HORATIO SEYMOUR. At the Jersey police-court, on Tuesday, the ma gistrates were occupied in investigating a serious charge brought against the Rev. Edward Guille, rector of St. Luke's, of discharging a rifle bullet into the house of Mr. Thomas Brown, who has for the last ten years acted gratuitously as organist in St. Luke's Church. At 12 o'clock on the night of Sunday the 3d. inst., Mr.l3rown having given infor mation against Mr. Guille, the constable of the parish proceeded to the residence of the latter on the sth inst. for the purpose of arresting him, but he found that he had left the island on the previous morning for London. He proceeded to make a search of the premises, and in the bedroom of Mr. Guille he found a gun which bore traces of having been recently discharged. Proceeding with his search he discovered in a drawer some cartridges and balls, in all nine of each, of which, together with the gun, he took possession. Oa making in quiries in the town he ascertained that two or three days before the commission of the alleged offence Mr. Guille had purchased the cartridges and balls at the shop of Mr. Hardie, ironmonger. In conse quenee of these circumstances the Attorney-General gave orders for the apprehension of Mr. Guille. He returned on the 12th inst., and was taken into custody. Mr. Brown, in his evidence, deposed that on the night of the alleged offence he returned home with Mrs. Brown about ten minutes to twelve o'clock, and retired to bed about half-past twelve, his bedroom being on the ground floor and behind the sitting-room, from which it is separated by folding-doors. In a few minutes afterwards he heard the report of firearms and the crash of glass in the sitting-room, but, acting on the suggestion of his wife, he did not get up to ascertain the cause. Next morning he found the bullet produced, which had struck the wall near the mantelpiece. There was no light in the room, as it had been extinguished on his going to bed. Previous to that it had stood on the chimneypiece. He gave as his reasons for sus pecting Mr. Guille that in August last they had had a quarrel. Mr. Guille had written threatening let ters to him through his wife. One of the letters put in and read contained, among other threats, the following—" I promise you it (the island) shall be come too hot for you." "Depend upon it venge ance shall yet fall upon you." Being cross-examined and shown a paper, Mr. Brown acknowledged that ho had signed it in the presence of his wife and the constable, and that all three had been con,cerned in drawing it up. The document was a promise on the part of Mr. Brown to withdraw the charge he had made, provided Mr. Guille would undertake not to institute proceedings against him. Mr. Guille had refused compliance. Several witnesses were ex amined as to the state of the gun found in Mr. Guille's house, and also as to the hole made in the Venetian shutters, and which, in the opinion of the witnesses, could not have been made by the ball produced. No evidence was given of Mr. Guille having been out of his house at the time the shot was fired. The Bench declined to hear either the witnesses or the counsel for the defence, stating that there was no evidence against Mr. Guille, who was therefore discharged. The decision was received with loud cheering. GOVERNOR SEYMOUR'S MESSAGE. At the opening of the State Legislature of New York Governor Seymour sent in a long message. The only portion of interest to English readers is the statement of the Governor's views on the contest between North and South. He says : The disorganisation and destruction of the South are not io save us from the cost of the war. The plan for the future government of the seceded States demands the maintenance of armies and a continued drain upon the persons and pro perty of our people. Whenever one-tenth of the voters of either of these States shall submit themselves to the condi tions imposed they may form governments with new or old names and boundaries. This inconsiderable minority is to be supported in the exercise of power by the arms and trea sure of the North. There will be no motives on their part to draw the remaining population into the support of the governments thus created. There will be every inducement of power, of gain, and of ambition, to perpetuate the con • dition of affairs so favourable to individual purposes. It will also be for the interest of the National Administra• tion to continue this system of Government, so utterly at variance with a representative policy. Is not this the same mistaken theory upon which other nations have tried to govern their dependencies ? Has complete subjugation for centuries produced the quiet, the obedience to law, the order, the security to life and property, the kindly feelings or the mutual contributions to prosperity which belong to real peace ? Governments thus formed would represent not the in terests of their citizens, but the wills and interests of the power that creates and sustains them. The nine states thus controlled would balance in the House of Representatives in the choice of President, and at all times in the Senate, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Massa chusetts, Missouri, Kentucky , and Wisconsin, with a united population of 16,533,3 83 , which is more than one-half of that of our whole country. The 1-10th, who would accept the proclamation for the price of power, would not only govern the States made by executive decrees, but they would also govern the North. While the plan is harsh to the body of the Southern people, it is still more unjust towards the North. Fourteen hundred men in Florida would balance in the Senate of the United States the power of New York. Less than 70,000 voters in the nine States named in thePro sident's proclamation would wield a power sufficient to weigh down that of the nine most populous States in the Union. We should thus have, with th e nominal stat es of Eastern and Western Virginia, a, system of rotten boroughs which would govern.theUnion and destroy the representa tive nature of our Government. This, in connection with existing inequalities in state representation, would be a dangerous invasion of the rights of a majority of the Ame rican people. It would enable an administration to per- petuate its power. It is a fact full of significance that every measure to con vert the war against armed rebellion into one against pri vate property and personal rights at the South has been accompanied by claims to exercise military power in the loyal States of the North. The proclamation of emancipation at the South, and the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus at the North ; the confiscation of private property in the seceding States; and the arbitrary arrests, imprisonment, and banishment of citi zens of the loyal States; the claim to destroy political or ganisations at the South, and the armed interference by Government in local elections, have been contemporaneous events. These acts at first were justified upon the ground that they were necessary to save the national existence. We now find that new and more extreme claims to arbitrary power are put forth when it is declared that the strength of the rebellion is broken, and that our armies are about to trample out every vestige of its incendiary fires. More pre rogatives are asserted in the hour of triumph than were claimed as a necessity in days of disaster and of danger. The doctrine of Southern disorganisation and revolu tion is a doctrine of national bankruptcy and of national ruin; it is a measure for lasting military despotism over one-third of our country, which will be the basis for mili tary despotism over the whole land. It does not contem plate the return of our soldiers to their families, or relief from the cost and sacrifices of war. It will make an endur ing drain upon our homes, and impose crushing burdens upon our labour and industry. It will open a wide and last ing field for peculation and fraud, It tends to perpetuate power by making and unmaking States, as the interests of factions may dictate. It will be a source of internal disorder and disquietude, and national weakness in our external re lations. It will give dangerous allies to invaders of our soil. If this war is to make a social revolution and structural changes in great States, we have seen only its beginning• Such changes are the work of time. If they are to be made by military power it must be exerted through long periods. Whether white or black troops are to b 3 used the diversion from labour and the cost of war will be equhlly prolonged, and we have just entered upon a course of certain cost and uncertain results. No such changes as are now urged have ever in the world's history been without a struggle lasting through more than one generation of men. What has Government accomplished in the territories wrested from rebellion by the valour of the armies ? Has it pacified them ? Has it revived the arts of peace ? Has quiet and confidence been restored ? Is commerce renewed ? Are they not held as they were conquered, at the expense of Northern blood and treasure ? Are not our armies wasted by holding under armed control those who, under a wise and generous policy, would have been friend& ? The spirit which prompts the harsh measure of subjugation has driven off many in the Border States, who, at the crisis of our country's fate, broke away from ancient sympathies with seceding states and clung to the Union. States which, by the elections of the people, rar ging themselves upon the side of the constitution, are not allowed the free exercise of the elective franchise. In some quartets discontent has been increased ; and in no place has the wisdom of government gained us allies. There is but one course which can save us from national ruin. We must adhere to the solemn pledges made by our government at the outside of the war, We must seek to restore the 'Union and to uphold the con stitution. To this end, while we put forth every exertion of material power to beat down armed rebellion, we must use every influence of wise statesmanship to bring back the states which now reject their constitutional obligations. We must hold forth every honourable inducement to the people of the South to assume again the right and duties of A.meri- can citizenship. We have reached that point in the progress of the war, for which all have struggled and all have put forth united exertions. Our armies and navies have won signal victo ries; they have done their part with courage and success. By the usage of the civilised world statesmanship must now exert its influence. If our cause fails in the judgment of the world it will be charged to the lack of wisdom in the Cabi net, and not to the want of bravery or patriotism in the army. The great object of victories is to bring back peace; we can now with dignity and magnanimity proclaim to the world our wish that states which have long been identified with our history should reassume their positions in the Union. We now stand before the world a great and suc cessful military power. No one can foresee the latest vic tories or defeats which lie in our course if force, and force alone, is to be exerted. The past has taught us the certain cost of war and the uncertainties of its results. In this contest belligerent rights are necessarily conceded to the South. The usages of international warfare are prac tised in the recognition of flags and the exchanges of pri soners. It is wise to put off the end of the war and thereby continue a recognition which tends to familiarise the public mind in our country and in the world at large with the idea that we aro disunited into two distinct nationalities ? A needlessly protracted war becomes disunion. Wise statesmanship can now bring this war td a close, upon terms solemnly avowed at the outset of the contest. Good faith to the public creditors, to all classes of citizens of our country, to the world, dema nds that this be done. The triumph won by the soldiers in the field should be followed up and secured by th e peace-making policy of the statesmen in the cabinet. In no other way can wo save our Union. The fearful struggle which has taught the North and the South the courage, the endurance, and the resources of our people, have made a basis of mu tual re spect , upon which a generous and magnanimo us p olic y can b u ild last ing relationships of union, intercourse, and fraternal regard. If our course is to be shaped by Darrow and vindictive pas sions, by venal purposes, or by partisan objects, then a patriotic people have poured out their blood and treasure in vain, and the future is full of disaster and ruin. We should seek not the disorganisation but the pacification of that country devastated by civil war. In this hour of triumph appeals should be made to states which are identified with the growth and greatness of our country, and with some of which are associated the patriotic memories of our revolitionary struggle. Every generous mind revolts at the bought of destroying all those memories that cling about the better days of the Republic; that are conyrcted with the sacrifices of the men who have made cur history glorious by their services in the cabinet, in the foram, and in the field. The victories which have giver. our Government its pre sent commanding position were won by men who rallied around and fought beneath the bids of a flag whose stars represent each State in the Union. It we strike out of existence a single State we make that flag a falsehood. When we extinguish the name of any one of the original 13 States we dishonour the historic stripes of our national banner. Let the treasonable task of defacing our flag he loft to those who war upon our government, and who would destroy the unity or our country. Faith to our armies and to our cit;zens demands that we keep sacred the solemn pledge made to our people and to the civilised world when we engaged in this bloody war, " that it was not waged in any spirit of oppression, or for Shocking Suicide in Bethnal-green, Yesterday, at noon, Mr. H. Raffles Walthew, deputy coroner, held an inquest at the George Tavern, Bethnal green-road, respecting the death by suicide of 'William Claridge, aged 30 years. The deceased was a glassblower, living at No. 8, George's gardens, Bethnal-green. Thomas Hall, 231 K, said that last Friday evening he was going past the deceased's residence, when a doctor asked him to assist him in breaking into the room upstairs, as a man had poisoned himself there. They both got in by the window and found deceased lying on the floor, apparently from poison. The wife said that she had bought some poison to take a name out of a waistcoat, and that deceased took it up and drank it. She and the children tried to take it from his hand, but could not. The doctor advised that deceased should be carried to the hospital, but the wife had not got a earthing to pay for a cab, and deceased died on the loor almost immediately, The widow of the deceased said that her husband had been out of work. He had only been five days in work since Christmas, and ho was depressed because, he said, he could not do all that lie wished for his family. A fortnight ago witness bought some spirits of salt to take names out of waistcoats and prepare them for sale. On Friday night about twelve o'clock, all the family were in the room going to bed, when he took up the bottle of poison and began to drink. The little boy cried out, " Oh, mother, father is taking poison." Witness ran and knocked the bottle out of his hand. She saw he had taken a good deal, and she at once ran for a doctor. Witness was about to be confined, and she believed that deceased was distressed in mind about her, as she had no means to meet the expense, but there was no want of food. Dr. Ralph said that at midnight on Friday last his assis. taut was fetched to deceased, who found him dying. - Mimes and Dr. Brotherton made a post-mortem examination of the deceased, and found that he had been poisoned by a strong corrosive poison—hydrochloric acid. The mouth and sto mach were dreadfully injured by the corrosive action of the liquid. There was a general ulceration of the passages. Alter other evidence, the Corcnor summed up, and tho jury returned a verdict of "Suicide while in a state of un sound mind." DEATH FROM WANT OF FOOD. Yesterday Mr. William Payne held an inquest in the board room of St. George the Martyr, Southwark, on the body of Hugh Irvine, aged 40, whose death occurred under the following circumstances : Mary Warne said that she resided at Mr. Wall's lodging house in Mint-street. About six months ago the deceased came to lodge at the house, and, with the exception of two Lights, he had remained in the house and slept in a room with others. He used to go out of a morning and return about 12 o'clock. He complained on Friday morning of having a bad cold, and said he was going to the workhouse for relief. On Saturday he said that he had applied for re lief, but they would give him none. He said on Sunday morning that he had only 3d., and he asked her if Mr. Wall would trust him the remainder of the amount of his bed. She said she knew he would, and he replied that he knew he should have something in the morning. He was then sitting on a chair, and ho seemed as he came out to have the rattle in his throat, and he died soon afterwards. The Coroner asked whether the names of applicants were taken down when they were refused relief? Mr. Townsend, the relieving officer, said that every appli cant's name was entered on the books, and he was certain, knowing the man as hanging about the Mint, that ho had never made application for relief. John White, a lodger at Mr. Wall's, said that he had known the deceased for five months. He told his wife in his presence that he had been refused relief in the work house. He did not know how he got a living or where he came from, but he said he had come from Boston. Mr. Cooper, assistant to Mr. Townsend, confirmed the previous evidence, and was satisfied that the deceased had not made application for relief, or his name would have been on the list. The jury returned a verdict of " Death from want, acce lerated by previous illness." 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Church must desire to maintain her spiritual supremacy in Europe, and most believe this to be inseparably connected with her temporal power, every member of a religious minority natu rally adopts the liberal creed so far as to claim the utmost freedom, both civil and political, for his own communion. Now, it so happens that these two objects are not likely to be promoted in this country by the same Government. The Liberal party carried Catholic Emancipation, and stands committed to the abolition of every vexatious dis ability ; but the Liberal party sympathises with the regeneration of Italy, and has little respect for the patrimony of St. Peter. The Conservative party is supposed to dread revolution more than Popery, and to regard the Papacy with much the same feelings as M. Guizot—that is, as a necessary keystone of the European States-system, and a valuable bul wark against religious anarchy. But (hen the Con servative party, as such, has always opposed any change in our Constitution, and especially those which threatened the privileges of the Church of England. Until those recent events described by Catholic preachers and writers as a revival of the persecutions which fell upon the early Church, no such dilemma was presented. The English Catho lics had most to hope from the Whigs at home, and the foreign policy of both parties was the same as far as the Pope was concerned—they had, therefore, no motive for inclining towards the Tories, That there should now be a movement of this kind is a proof either that there are no more grievances to be redressed, or that all minor considerations are merged in the paramount desire to save the Catholic hierarchy, and even the Catholic faith, from de struction. An influential organ of the Catholic body in this country emphatically opposes to each other " the petty interests of a few place-hunters" and " the political principles on the triumph or defeat of which the Church and civil society seem under God at this moment to depend." This is a sign of ;the times, and when an eminent member of the Catholic aristocracy addresses a large audi ence at Birmingham, comprising two titular Bishops and other Catholic leaders of the Midland district, we await w ith some curiosity the expression of his views on the present crisis. We regret to say that Lord Edward Howard failed to satisfy any such ex pectations. Nothing could be milder or more cha racteristic of the thoroughly " respectable" Catholi cism which he represents than the tone of hie dis course. He speaks of Catholic struggles for liberty as " things which are gone by," is satisfied if ne can "see the Catholic body not inferior to other bodies of men," disclaims any proselytizing schemes, re commends "the most perfect friendship and kind ness to those who do not agree with us," puts in a good word for education, and has nothing to com plain of, except that " there still prevails a good deal of feeling against the Catholic religion." Lord Edward even carries his moderation beyond this, and alludes with something like disapprobation to certain of his fellow-Catholics who " wish to see some other things accomplished." For himself, he desires no other advantage than that which was conceded in principle by the Prison Ministers Bill, free access for Roman Catholic clergymen to mem bers of their own Church in gaols, workhouses, and public institutions. Here he will find no reasonable Protestant to join issue with him. We all agree substantially that such establishments, whether penal or charitable, should not be made the battle field of rival creeds. The chaplain of the Estab lished Church should confine himself to paupers and criminals who nominally belong to the Church of England; the rest should be visited by ministers or priests of their own faith. Hardly any one con tests this in theory; the only doubt felt was whether the priest should be invited to attend all Roman Catholics instead of being only permitted to attend such as might ask for him. We do not hesi tate to adopt Lord Edward's view of this matter, and to maintain that those who, being Roman Catholics, do not send for the priest voluntarily are probably the very persons who most need his warn ings and instructions. It would be absurd to exclude the most irreligious of Protestant prisoners from the benefit of the chaplain's visits, and it is equally absurd, in our opinion, to exclude the most hardened Roman Catholic prisoners from the minis trations of their own clergy. Lord Edward attributes the reluctance of this class to see a priest to" shamefacedness, " which is to the man's honour," and it may be that confession has terrors for the im penitent Roman Catholic which we cannot altogether understand. We. should prefer, however, to treat it simply as an evidence of conscious and wilful depra vity—a state of mind over which religion has more influence than punishment. Unless, therefore, we are prepared to justify on our own part attempts to prosely:jse in these cases, priests should be a imitted wherever the.: e is a considerable number of Roman Catholics, and un;:: SS there had been an apprehen sion,beroundless, of proselytising tendencies not altogether encies on their part, tbe: e would have been little difference of opinion about it 2m°115 the county task to magistrates. It is a somewhat ungraa7n! draw from the fact of such sensible (lava." be in g offered to such an audience by such a per son at unn• a time and place the inference which it fore:Per; suggests to us. Had the spirit of Catholicism always been as rational, as tolerant, as charitable, es free from the temper of persecution and aggression as this, Protestent bigotry could have had no exist ence; but could the Church of Rome herself have existed till now side by side with Protestantism upon these conditions ? If it had appealed to reason and to conscience, if it had not claimed an undivided and indefeasible authority over the human mind, and backed its demand by the unsparing use of spiritual terrorism and secular coercion, can it be doubtful that the Papacy would have perished in its grand climacteric three centuries ago? It was not such amiable and enlightened sentiments ae those of Lord Edward Howard that nerved the arm of the great Catholic monarchies against the Refor mation, inspired the Order of the Jesuits, rolled back the tide of religious emancipation from the Laticised countries of Europe, and postponed to our own days, if not to a more distant epoch, a cato - which must sooner or later shake Christen dom. We are not among those who look upon the connection between the temporal and spiritual power, and the consequent maintenance by the supreme and infallible Head of the Church of poli tical ideas inconsistent with modern civilisation, as absolutely essential to the Papacy. At the same time, we cannot disguise from ourselves that a weak ness in material resources, and even in moral repu tation, which was not fatal to it in ages when faith was strong and freedom of thought unknown, might cause a rapid loss of allegiance among Catholics who live three generations after the French Revolution. At all events, it is this mis giving which appears in some degree to justify the hostility of Liberal as well as of Conservative Catholics to Italian nationality. In the visible triumph of wordly policy and revolutionary prin ciples over a Government against which, even its temporal capacity, they were taught to believe that the gates of Hell could not prevail, they fancy they read the handwriting on the wall, and tremble while they strive to erase it. HERALD.—In the contest between Federals and Confederates in North America, which has now been going on for three years, the grounds upon which the two parties base their hopes of success are very different, and, at first sight, seem unequally matched. The Southerners:express their confidence in the justice of their cause, in the bravery, the in domitable spirit, the perseverance of their people. At first sight, the hope of the North appeared to the world at large to be better founded. The superiority of numbers, of credit, of material resources, seemed to opposedlaug hto to se th or e n m. th A e lo m st er m e en mo a r r a e l in c c la n i n m e s ds t et h eo a b t e:i v et e v r ei e s, with Napoleon, that God is generally on the side of the strongest battalions. There may m true, w e standto b i e nn eed something a fewg atheistic reat in p r e t e h e i d s view.en tprecedents t empßaekur make suede the world that might does not always right. Until thus convinced it will persist in regarding probabilities in what it calls a practical light. History to a certain extent is in favour of this method of judging things. Freedom may have stood shriekeden h when e legs g I s ) ol since.ari d fell, 1e but leave Polandno in modern European history of a weaker nation pre• veiling against the stron ger without the aid of other Powers, whose forcesi turned the balance in her favour. In considering the Prospects of war between Denmark and Germany it is enough for statesmen and diplomatists that a people of forty is precipitating itself u p on a population smaller than that of London. It a vvil o. l o b o e . a by refreshing fact in his tory ; it will do us e t s e i n glv)dt mortal e ienx g t e ac e mr c vp y elne o or a Power w i l l , i proving the active go .f verns the universe and t n Greece, which e77site,modern i scholars like that of the weaker has prevailed against the forgotten —one instance, at mightier, in which the race has not been granted to the swift nor th e battle t oth e strono-, because truth and justice hav e b een on the other side. We thank the brave people of the Confederate States for affording us a fair are prospect of hie an example Their eight millions a -so equal fight mitt, twenty. front :.vging front of Richmond they have had their - Ther I ta°ll m, at Charleston their Salamis. The hope first nourished of their sucoess lute now ripened into a certainty: Their first three years of battle have been their time of trial—the fiery ordeal which was needed to make them a people. Every year thtit now passes will enuble them to en- trench themselves themselves more securely, and t ''..".-- e d Fh a eedi l et,6 l , ' toi ; t il oc e e . ti. confusion and mortification of their 00 18°1 / a The long predicted conquest of the seen is no ad dream of the past. There may be seen her e e l at , there in shop windows certain neaps ef t li , e to r United States, in which a large portion of W I , on itory of the Confederacy is claimed as ha ving d as overrun by Northern armies, and rePrese a,tederitt permanen,ly added to the domains of Union. It is true that the armies of the are dotted here and there over the parts 0 1 1„t he r a federate States which are nearest to the IN crthe il t e frontier; but that the States overrun b 9 t„,„i far from being Unionist in feeling, that WY '''';', / 3 • tain, on the contrary, their own separate g°,':ch,. ment ; and their allegiance to the Cabinet at lv d l ot mond, wherever it is possible to do it, is Pr e.° i the late meeting of the Legislatures of Alississil:(l9„ and North Carolina, and the e' firm and patriotic ta of the messages of their governors. Tile tare l o oa l a " er a gress of Mississippi has been moved frona to Columbus, where it can meet in s afety• - e : o plo Clarke, the newly -elected governor, tells I;i' P - i s s . t, that the army of Mississippi will resist to th e . o t he and if the time should come when every Ma n 1 will State has been slain, the women and chi ldrei j i cort b prefer death to dishonour. The governor of f fot , Carolina, Mr. Vance, has appointed a dap f„,, 039 ing, humiliation, and prayer, that " God ? In u ' at be his hand, which has been heavy upon 118: 'ill;re speaks kn no words of peace or reconciliation. ob. s ow at last precisely what we should get by; Pa mi mission--abolition of slavery, confisnatin,nh°o tern° party, and territorial vassalage. They ar e `-- 00 1 beforeto the to win us back. With such a prospect our people will, as heretofore, come firn'lln,,Po, to 0 full measure of their duty. They will t P h "; ea' open shame the gallant shades of their son e n l e pea' ping e short , of full and complete national J" oalr d da nce. "The State of North Carolina has : 111 , d el(1 nce of supplies on hand for her troops in 1 " ,•aa and for her people at home. There have bee„noo, through the blockade large quantities of ar u , ;Oi l ' tion, medicines, machinery, sheet iron, till , 13 L 5- 0,0 04 sheets, and clothing. In return, more thai'toicea bales s, of cotton have been sent to Liverpool. that tbe 11e 'y say," writes Governor Vance ' t hed Nor t th Carolina troops will be cornfort'ablf clo th o o long January, 1865, should God in his provide/id till w n a g " see fit to t fflict us with a continuance ion', it r h . The states that have not been yet aft terio and incursions of Federal armies into their ic'ocel have dthe destruction of their seats of e ler h il rg, of th been able to do more in sustaining tne,lo4" C r l e . war than Mississippi, Tennessee, and clog ef a t o h ina. The message of the outgoing g:„ . too 4 e state of Alabama is couched le t-,-,,,i,i30 forhopeful spirit. It recommends a proper P`w„,,ilit° t the forces in the field, an extension of 0" - , of and the maintenance at the public e 5 C e , 9 0 101 s th w e e ' families of soldiers. The account of file r tr- o l e° a hws a balance to the credit of the state c' e ' d /j o ilar s ' G sum than two and a half millions of ~„ fi t it Governor Bonham, of South Carolina, the which first seceded, and whose flag of seeesua`°,Bo3ll r floats,. to the admiration of the world, sv,":.totir . tuns of Sumter, recommends to his people , a will i f ng r h ergy and perseverance." " A bitter and oe,' e tells theni, watches over all their n3clevioflei prepared to take every advantage• "o,,nproe.faie u however, have counted the cost and have u''' :00 0 of independence or annihilation." The g r ,`" giei r tore the state of Georgia recommends to th e ',, e io i, 11 ; u l r d e an extension of the Militia Law, se, a ti ; d u ; "; elude e all Georgians between the ages of '' 6%1; answer to a late demand for 8,00 0 ra en G e ev ef t o i replied by enrolling 18,000 new soldiers. bo ot ' t , Cobb, at the head of these new troope , 'The e Sti e d a reinforce d the army of Bragg at Dalton• tdery3e; Assembly of Georgia have solemelY reieterle,; the secession of the state, and declared be r - 1 ;,(11 13e f o n bGvia.ec t co i sk o rowg n nifaa n erd o ida t esr. t ta a hten t y i i r in e ed o e f p t e h n e d w on a o r e. till, ro ac c e a e r;? ,, ,;f o we would," said one of the represeni4;;llitoP;'o Confederate Yield to the Senate Federal ‘ a th n enrea'it e i s e ' se' '.°l IG as o vassals and subjugation ! The bleachia b 0 lea ,000 gallant soldiers slain in battle We i ,l o g i lr u ttmt ahh p er nen w yNpd i rot t to h hrhmtee t his o mese n er a g :wr l u oos e rtr s thdpa o aste te f atscow fi ea trhnhoeidnse whispered—yield' curseo naecnroEeteendns igdl to eve r I e i r r e e° ° : e a Yr n il le d di v c °.°"ll n°ltie tell b e t 1 1 1°s : etil A:l' compromise, people of the South are anxious for COUNTRY DIARIK.. 80. a o, MANCHESTER—TxtritsnIa% a na l , I A At our market this morning there was a boa , w i l eo!f oo . 0/ attendance, but not much inquiry for Engl is , l r edO t e l de t , ° ' sales could only to effected by submitting t o ' t - c , se c f ee' is per . qr, which holders were not willingino c . , 5 ) Foreign sold slowly at about former rates. f l o osie ) " asked for, but unchanged in price. Oats an" te ndil slowly at late rates. Indian corn a nd beans s ~l i --- A.. ' BURTON-ON-TRENT—TnrIts9- dat de We had a tolerable supply of English Whe,a,tl;asi lo „ imet . a fair sale at fully last week's rates. 1. 0 4 ,, ' SY t° 4 16 ing, in other articles was limited Old white wheat..43s to 46s Uld red wheat, i.' 3 85 OP New do. .. 425 to 45s New do. f " Vo k tjj o 4 0 IN. , lalting barley....3ls to'39s Oats. .......... .36$' Grinding do .....28s t0 . 3 0 s I Beans ........ i ,i 0 . •—•-••-•--- A r BRISTOL—TnnitsDAY. d they n olfj The tone of our market to-day was flat, al l ai o , olir moderate supply of English wheat, which ~,, , ,,,v,,r,ff about the prices of this day se'nnight. - 1- s' A ialti",V A almost without inquiry, and values nominal• et, o a. Or ley very dull. Grinding sorts in good ralaeetioo less money. Oats a dull trade, and fine dese''' way in price. Beans and maize quite as d ea r. b ................., A " r e BIRMINGHAM—TittrnsP O ' dull 10- du be 4 Th ere was ~ less show of wheat, with a. lee es o i o v , and prices in lava, - -English wheat was sold at 40s to 465 for o. '; dt ilig , to . , t, of the buyer. Other art ic h ire, 6 30 0 7 i, to 12s per 36 stone for :cd, Barley, r ' eW r id, ( " 46 1 01 40s per qr; grinding, 26s to 30s 0at.5, 0 : te 44° per 30 stone • Irish, 18s to 24:7. Beane, 4 Peas, 36s to ' 44s per 36 stone. ..----. ,r `2 O I 10 S D.' df EDINBURGH GRAIN -- •,. 5 ,00 - d o, Today there was a pretty fair show 0 . 1 ' p• Id slow sale, at about last week's prices. o ig i d tiP' Wheat on the top 3s 6d down.... Barley on the top Os Gd down ...... .aver36,:e l;” 's ) t i V oi l .. averg rg Os ,a OP;o, Oats on the top 9d down... ......... ave r te OS 03. Beans on the top Os Gd up ........ ..aveiliveslos, superfine, Flour El.sa s h e r 1 3le l e5a s yst . as o:.; 1.1..' . o : t : a 1 1 968 8 05 u 6 p qq p rr I ss y .. . a . . n . .. d .. .. 8 .. a .. 1 e ss, s oo :r aa 16 41 1 ficic c i rr l Oats Beans '!L ..__ . cir5...............:5,/, - - --- fil Foreign Mail Packet Australia and Mauritius, v l i L a S so D u U th E tv ; ls° A I .. I : e ir , via Marseilles • ••''' ~..•„,1, %,•.* &fail and Cape 'herds, by Britishet••'' 0- I, * ,' Ca . , I,e of Good Ho e, A' . ' pack ...,„lena•• ce.,06, !3cension, and bt. Inoton•iot, •• ilina, Penang, and ' Singapore, via 50ut12'!,.;6... A via Marsel" .. ',' Falkland Islands Gibraltar, via Southampton•• 00000 .•..... _et, India (Calcutta), .......... .. • ton' 'lO , lcutta), and Ceylon via Southa a ip• ' via Marseillee'''*lo' ~I, India (Bombay), via c th t ...... .' ' /°' ~ou amp on ... ~,,e,D, via M • Portugal ... .. —arsodles ............... '' l• ~,,-_,. „, • ........................ • .. , ,-.,.,, '-'`aua, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton •... J, / via Marseilles •' •• ..' . lO Newfoundl 71 an Oporto and Vigo .................. ..,..'',o' U. S. and British .......... _t.... ,_,, h N. AL:aerie a, by Brit. Paelet., .., J o 2 0 , by U.S. P 3e acitet.--.d. 11, ipt0n......j:;.:5, by Canadiall P .. ~r,el). !,6, W.C. Of Afri ~,,. an. ea, Madeira, and Teneritie.• •••'....:10,, j-,,..t as, via New York ................ •• ~, , Mexico A 11................ • ..,..;:i.%, pitn' parts of West Indies, including Chilit •'• ' ,f California. anjll3ritisl2. Columbia c eie' th e 4 COUNT ---- -- Greg ior AuEnsPERG.--Anastasius 1 1 0 „il k; brated. German poet, who is about to brvibiell,2loo silence with a poem in ballads, the subject C'corot, '; 1 1 other than our good old friend of Sherwood xi tre9tV/ Hood, will precede that poem with an historical i __---------- tr rt c ` Births. yoll i BEAUCK ' 01P .—On the 19th ins t., the gall . p 0 e l Beauchamp, of a daughter. 1 ., the -0 MA.cnAY.—On the 19th inst, at Blackheat-.4 1` 1614 L. D. B. Macka E l' y, sq., o a son• r tail' co' NANGLE.—On the 20th inst., the wife of ,i6P belil D.A.Q,G., Woolwich, of adaughter. „ Al), 'o O'CoNNELL.—On the 17th inst. at Parryne'7- 9.1,4 Kerry, the wife of Daniel O'Connell, son and heir. tit 4 Marriages. ~-,, i e a ' 14 " M ILES—BAN.—On the 20th inst,„ at -,- r--13060,. 518, House, Winchtnore-hill, Edward Mile's'ajirtiPl' Liverpool-street, city,Catherine -,„014 of Thomas Bax, of Stoke •Newingtoweeli'— l'," sf_x. , 0 •• t Cf SllO ,cO/, 13 ,6 1 J SIVAN—CLANTON.—Cn Ilse 21st inst., at , - , w• 1 1,1, , i ,0 7 cadilly, Robert Swan, Esq., of 'The Cl," s e ,„' o of I le Lucy, eldest daughter a N. Clayton, --'s'' House, Lincoln. Jod i D ea ths. 0 0 Per 13Annow,—On the 19th inst., at the Grang e, 11 f oe a Mr. John Barrow, aged 58, j-lon• '' „a ~ Br Kv.—On the 20th inst., at Exeter, the the 000 . 13nry, late Captain .R.E., second sea of t c13,,, f of Cbarleville, aged `,3.. vo cileY , ell P EmEnv.—On the 19th inst., at the Friel, „ 310 ° i Emery, Esq., of Burcott, near Welliegte'" TIP aged GO. Ile V. the ‘l O GALE —On the 19th inst., at the Vicarage, 0 Gale, vicar of G-oodrnersham, aged 7' ~,,, PO 4 , 4 GooDwlN.—On the 20th inst., at Worces , , P I le! win, E-q., J.P., aged 73. Butte ,a t” POP ifAM.—On the 19th inst., at l'bo Du ' ,0 0 0 0 1 0 Nary R. Popham, aged 92. , „ Isle ov WEEKES. —On the 19th inst., at Pong•taeli 7',3" Commander IV, Burt Weekes, IL.N.. 81' aged l' ,7 4 6, t he 18-11 inst., Grace, wife of the above, __ .------------ 011) .O,)Pf ________-------- ~..• LIAO" -ei' ' London : Prinzed and Published Dy T. I— .‘, o ilic .4 0 • of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TIO 6" . .. tu s V Strand, in the Precinct of the 50OP .' lgiudiesex —Friday, ,January 2';-', .16154' Ca z b ital ,I,ooc at pre not n o t they eo rpo 'cInAAPII, ". tot 1 7 1 ) fort t or , 1 at,t, I ,Lo , Jam,